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House Republicans demanding to know how well proprietary information secured by FDA

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Key House Republicans are demanding to know how well the Food and Drug Administration is securing proprietary information it collects from food producers under new food-safety regulations. In a letter to the FDA, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton of Michigan, and its subcommittee on health, Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania, noted that the Food Safety Modernization Act gives the agency access to many records involving companies’ use of preventative controls. Proposed changes to the nutrition facts label on packages will give the agency access to additional information, the lawmakers wrote. The letter goes on to ask FDA to provide answers to a series of questions about how sensitive company information is protected.

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